(CNN) â€“ Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Tuesday confirmed and elaborated on his wife's revelation, first to CNN, on how he handles his first moments onstage at a presidential debate.

"I write my dad's name at the top of the piece of paper to remind myself of all that he sacrificed to give me the opportunities I now have," Romney said in the interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, which aired on "The Situation Room."